2009年4月8日星期三

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Crew on US ship say Somali pirates hold captain (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:53 PM PDT

Mass. Maritime President and Admiral Richard Gurnon, left, and professor and Capt. Joseph Murphy talk with reporters regarding two former students, which were aboard a ship they were piloting that was hijacked by pirates off the coast of Africa, Wednesday April 8, 2009 in Buzzard's Bay, Mass. Graduates Richard Phillips was the captain and Shane Murphy was second in command aboard the cargo ship Maersk Alabama. Capt. Joseph Murphy, who teaches a course in security and piracy at the Mass. Maritime Academy, is Shane Murphy's father. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - The American crew of a hijacked U.S.-flagged ship retook control of the vessel from Somali pirates Wednesday but the captain was still being held hostage in a lifeboat hundreds of miles off the Horn of Africa, crew members said.

Iran charges American journalist with espionage (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:39 PM PDT

This undated photo provided Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by the National Press Photographers Association shows U.S. journalist Roxana Saberi. Saberi, who has been jailed for more than two months in Iran, has been charged with espionage, her lawyer said Wednesday, April 9, 2009, dashing hopes of a quick release days after her parents arrived in the country seeking her freedom. (AP Photo/NPPA)AP - An American journalist jailed for more than two months in Iran has been charged with spying for the U.S., a judge said Wednesday, dashing hopes of a quick release days after her parents arrived in the country seeking her freedom.

For young Somalis, piracy offers power, prosperity (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:50 PM PDT

Map shows the approximate location of a U.S. cargo ship taken by pirates near SomaliaAP - For young Somalis, piracy offers a life of adventure and money: At sea, they are armed with automatic weapons, rockets and grenades. On land, they are a cross between a town official and a gangster rapper — with grand houses, luxury cars and beautiful wives.

Somali pirates find US ship — and a fight (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:04 PM PDT

AP - The equatorial sun had just passed high noon Wednesday when a text message flashed on reporters' cell phones in Nairobi: 17,000-ton boxship seized 400 miles off Somali coast.

Quake funerals begin in Italy as more bodies found (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:41 PM PDT

People react with emotion after the funeral of Giuseppe Chiavaroli, 24, one of the victims of the earthquake, in Loreto Aprutino, central Italy, Wednesday, April 8, 2009. A powerful earthquake struck the Abruzzo region in central Italy early Monday, killing some 260 people and leaving around 28,000 homeless. A state funeral for other victims is scheduled for Friday morning. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)AP - Bells tolled in hilltowns across central Italy on Wednesday as the first funerals got under way for victims of the country's devastating earthquake. The Vatican granted a dispensation so a funeral Mass for most of the 272 dead could be celebrated on Good Friday.

Police bring forward terror raid after breach (AFP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:47 PM PDT

Police stand outside a house in Galsworthy Avenue in Manchester where counter-terrorism officers raided the house. Police were forced to bring forward a major anti-terror operation Wednesday after a security breach in which a top officer was caught on camera displaying sensitive documents, reports said.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Police were forced to bring forward a major anti-terror operation Wednesday after a security breach in which a top officer was caught on camera displaying sensitive documents, reports said.

US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,266 (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 04:36 PM PDT

A US military adviser and soldiers from the 17th Iraqi army brigade duck as they fire a mortar round during a live fire drill in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, on April 6, 2009. Iraq on Wednesday said it is reviewing the files of thousands of prisoners freed by US forces, in the wake of unrest which left seven people dead in a third straight day of attacks in Baghdad.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - As of Wednesday, April 8, 2009, at least 4,266 members of the U.S. military had died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

Daughter launches crusade to clear Fujimori (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 02:53 PM PDT

Relatives of victims of Peru's former President Alberto Fujimori's administration, react after a guilty verdict was declared in Fujimori's trial in Lima, Tuesday, April 7, 2009. A special criminal court of the Peruvian Supreme Court sentenced Fujimori Tuesday to 25 years on human rights crimes related to two massacres by military forces and the kidnappings of a prominent businessman and a journalist during his administration in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia)AP - A day after a court imposed a 25-year sentence on former President Alberto Fujimori in death squad killings, his daughter predicted Wednesday that the ruling would backfire as she launched a "national crusade" to clear his name.

FBI raids in Minn. aimed at Africa money transfers (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 03:23 PM PDT

AP - Federal agents searched three money-transfer businesses in Minneapolis on Wednesday, carrying away boxes of documents and copying computer hard drives for details of transactions between the U.S. and several African nations.

NATO commander sees Afghans' support as priority (Reuters)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 05:02 PM PDT

Reuters - The top commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan has told his troops that winning Afghans' support is more important than killing insurgents, a strategy championed by the U.S. military in Iraq.

Australia's PM admits he has a nerdy reputation (AP)

Posted: 08 Apr 2009 01:04 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 25, 2007 file photo is the then newly-elected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd gesturing during a press conference in Brisbane, Australia. Prime Minister Rudd admits he has a reputation as a nerd — but he doesn't seem to mind. The buttoned-down, bespectacled leader whose lofty rhetoric and slight stiffness in public sometimes give him the aura of a schoolteacher was asked on radio Wednesday, April 8, 2009, how he would spend a cash payout the government is handing out to most Australians. 'Some people have accused me of being a nerd from central casting,' Rudd replied during a talk radio segment on the youth station Nova. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)AP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd admits he has a reputation as a nerd — but he doesn't seem to mind.

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